About a month ago my husband and I ditched the kid and took a birthday trip (his) to Galena, Ill. We stayed at a B & B; Abe’s Spring Street Guest House, a beautifully renovated icehouse, built in 1876, for a predominent Galena
brewery, located adjacently, which now
is home to Stone House Pottery &
Gallery. The icehouse once stored up to
800 tons of ice harvested from the Galena River for
the brewery industry. The building has 27-inch thick
walls, which in its time was a great insulator and added lots of charm to this building.
Charles Fach is a potter and sculptor and much of his sculpture was evident in our room. Each post of the bed had a different bronze figure and just as we were leaving I noticed a bench that had little sumo wrestlers holding up each leg. The breakfast made by Sandy Fach was incredible and it turned out she once was a weaver so we had lots to talk about. All in all a sweet little get away location, that made me want to run away more often.
Charles Fach is a potter and sculptor and much of his sculpture was evident in our room. Each post of the bed had a different bronze figure and just as we were leaving I noticed a bench that had little sumo wrestlers holding up each leg. The breakfast made by Sandy Fach was incredible and it turned out she once was a weaver so we had lots to talk about. All in all a sweet little get away location, that made me want to run away more often.
vultures atop the clock tower...I pretended they were ravens |
lots of up in this town |
we did not go away hungry |
the owners lived above the gallery and we had breakfast there |
one of the sculptures adorning our 4 poster bed |
local yarn shop |
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